Me: “Emma, that crown you made looks great!”
Emma: “Yeah, it took me a lot of miles.”

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Emma: “What are little girls are made of…salt and sugar and ice cream?”
Me: “Ha! It says ‘What are little girls made of…sugar and spice and everything nice…'”
Emma: “They are not made of sugar and spice!”
Me: “Oh? Well what then?”
Emma: “…Skin.”

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Emma: “Charlotte is so cute.”
Me: “She sure is and so are you.”
Emma: “No, I’m not cute.”
Me: “You’re not? What are you then?”
Emma: “I’m adorable.”

Last weekend we took the girls to Mission Control for the first time along with some of Jose’s family who were visiting.

In the Apollo control room:Me: “What do you think?”Emma: “Is it time to go to the next room?”

In the space station control room:Me: “Pretty cool, right?”Emma: “Can we go to the next room now?”

In the bathroom:Me: “Put your hand here and the soap will come out automatically.”Emma: “Mom, this building is SO COOL!”

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Me: “You need to eat 2 more bites.”Emma: “Ohhhh how did I get myself into this?”

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Me: “These are Girl Scout cookies.”Emma: “Only girls can eat them?”

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Emma: “What planet do you like?”Me: “I like Saturn.”Emma: “No, that’s what I was going to say. You choose another one.”Me: “Ok, I like Mercury.”Emma: “And what about Charlotte?”Me: “I think she likes…Pluto.”Emma: “Because it’s small?”Me: “Yeah I think so!”Emma: “And Daddy?”Jose: “I like Jupiter.”Emma: “And I like Saturn. Can we go into space and stand on Saturn’s rings please?”

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Emma: “Mommy I love you. And I really love the things you say.”Me: “The things I say? Like what?”Emma: “Like we get to go to the park and watch iPad.”

There’s an old Disney version of Jack and the Beanstalk on Netflix, and we’ve watched it several times lately. The beanstalk begins to grow at night while Mickey, Donald and Goofy are sleeping and it carries them up into the sky during an extended scene where they almost fall out of their beds several times.

Emma: “Ohhhh does that look safe??”

Later, a huge fish eats a giant dragonfly with a long pointed nose.

Emma: “I would never eat a woodpecker because it would poke inside me and that would hurt.”

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While playing Candyland:

Emma: “I won I won I won!” (pause) “I love winning.”

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We watched Beauty and the Beast over the holidays. Emma had never seen the whole movie, but she had seen the final scene where the Beast is hurt and then turns into a prince.

Emma: “When is the Beast going to lay down and die?”

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Some early math education using a container of mini Oreos:

Me: “Ok you’ve had a few. We’ll save the rest for later. How many do you think are left?”Emma: “Ummm maybe 4?”Me: “Oh, there are definitely more than 4.”Emma: “No Mommy, I think there are 4.”Me: “Maybe we can estimate. That means to guess how many things there. I looked in the container and I estimate there are 17 Oreos left.”Emma: “I ESTIMATE that there are 4!”

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I'm Sarah, a NASA engineer by day and quilter by night. I live in Houston with my husband and our two young daughters. I've had this ol' blog for more than 15 years, and these days it's home to my quilting work, snippets of family life, and occasional musings on my engineering career.